Corporal punishment never "showed me" anything, except that the people who hit me were -- in my five year old perception -- not nice to hit me just for being silly and I should make fun of them more.
New haven america wrote:1. No no, there's research for 1 side, and propaganda/fallacies for the other side.
2. And yet you're ok with corporal punishment.
Corporal punishment should only be used to help children.
Help them... what? Learn "might makes right"? Learn they can't trust those they should trust the most? Learn that you don't need an explanation if you have a fist?
Corporal punishment is not a teaching tool (it actually impairs moral internalisation), it's a tool to get immediate and temporary obedience without needing to say why. It's a lazy way to get your child to comply.